David Lancaster has built his career on a unique blend of film and theatre productions. Prior to ushering Loving Jezebel to the screen, Lancaster produced and released The Sadness of Sex, a collection of "flash fiction" short stories by cult author and performance artist Barry Yourgrau, starring Yourgrau. and television's La Femme Nikita star, Peta Wilson. Lancaster's recent productions for cable and theatrical release include Woman Undone starring Mary McDonnell, Randy Quaid and Sam Elliott; and the HBO Premiere Films Persons Unknown, directed by George Hickenlooper (Hearts of Darkness, The Low Life), starring Joe Mantegna, Kelly Lynch and J.T. Walsh, and Terminal Justice starring Lorenzo Lamas, Chris Sarandon and Peter Coyote.
Making 1999 one of his busiest production years, Lancaster produced Cara, Cara, an HBO film starring Natasha Henstridge (Species) and directed by Graeme Clifford. Lancaster is also in various stages of pre-production on an ambitious slate of new films including Second Skin and Barracuda Lounge, both written by John Lau; two scripts based on Yourgrau short stories - A Man Jumps Out of an Airplane for USA Cable and Miles from Heaven by William Mickelberry; and Bright Corners, based on a novel by Fred Chappell.
Lancaster made his feature film debut by shepherding from stage to screen Marsha Norman's Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway production 'Night Mother, starring Anne Bancroft and Sissy Spacek for Universal. Prior to that he produced the CableACE award-winning HBO film The Laundromat, directed by Robert Altman and starring Carol Burnett and Amy Madigan. Lancaster's other feature credits include Scam, starring Christopher Walken and Lorraine Bracco, Houston Film Festival Gold Medal winner Quick, and 2 Idiots in Hollywood, which was written and directed by Stephen Tobolowsky.
On Broadway, Lancaster co-produced 'Night Mother starring Tony-nominated Kathy Bates. He served as associate producer on both David Mamet's American Buffalo starring Al Pacino, and Beth Henley's The Wake of Jamie Foster, the follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Crimes of the Heart. Off-Broadway, Lancaster produced the American premiere of Brian Friel's Volunteers, starring John Goodman. His numerous regional credits include the Mark Taper Forum production of James McLure's Wild Oats and Marsha Norman's Traveler in the Dark, starring Sam Waterston at Cambridge's ART.